> However, I just verified with the hosting company that BBU is off on the > raid controller. I am trying to find out my options, turn it on, different > card, etc...
Turning it on requires the external BBU to be installed, so even if a 9650 has BBU support, it requires the hardware on a pluggable card.
And even If the BBU is present, it requires to pass the selftest once until you are able to turn on write caching.